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Antarctica in 8 Days: Part 2 Season 15 Episode 17 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” titled “Antarctica in 8 Days: Part 2,” promises to be an exciting journey. This episode will air on Fox and continues the exploration of one of the most remote places on Earth. Graham Bensinger will delve deeper into the stunning landscape and unique experiences that Antarctica has to offer.

In this episode, Bensinger will meet Patrick Woodhead, the co-founder of White Desert, a luxury camp located in Antarctica. Woodhead will share his insights on high-stakes adventures in such a challenging environment. Viewers can expect to hear about the difficulties and risks involved in operating in one of the world’s harshest climates. The conversation will highlight not only the beauty of Antarctica but also the resilience required to thrive in such an unforgiving setting.

As the episode unfolds,...

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Antarctica in 8 Days: Part 2 Season 15 Episode 17 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” titled “Antarctica in 8 Days: Part 2,” promises to take viewers on an extraordinary journey to one of the most remote places on Earth. This episode will air on MyNetworkTV and continues the exploration of Antarctica, focusing on the unique experiences and challenges faced in this extreme environment.

In this episode, Graham Bensinger will meet Patrick Woodhead, the co-founder of White Desert, which is known for its luxury camp in Antarctica. Woodhead has been a part of high-stakes adventures in this harsh landscape, and he will share his insights and experiences. The conversation will delve into what it takes to operate in such an unforgiving setting, highlighting both the beauty and the difficulties of life in Antarctica.

Viewers can expect to learn about the unique...

When it was first announced that Wicked was going to be adapted as a movie, the anticipation was sky high. If the success of the Broadway musical it was inspired by was anything to go by, it was on the path to Box Office royalty. With the hype around its release fueling excitement among both diehard fans of the Broadway musical and cinema, it was already a writing on the wall.

No wonder it has managed to break many records in a small span of time. By becoming one of the most successful adaptations of a Broadway musical of all time, it has already created history. But it is making headlines in Kuwait for other reasons altogether.

Wicked has gone bonkers at the Box Office Wicked has made a lot of money at the Box Office || Universal Pictures

Directed by Jon M. Chu, the movie was already making waves before it first hit theatres.

Singham Again Worldwide Box Office Update! ( Photo Credit – Twitter )

Ajay Devgn and Kareena Kapoor Khan led Singham Again is set to achieve many milestones in the second weekend. It witnessed its first big fall on the second Friday as box office collection fell below the 10 crore mark in India. Scroll below for the latest worldwide update after day 8.

Domestic Box Office Collection

On the second Friday, Rohit Shetty’s directorial has minted earnings of 9 crores. It witnessed a fall of 19% compared to 11.20 crores earned on the previous day. The net box office collection after 8 days now stand at 195.60 crores. The cop drama is now less than 5 crores away from entering the 200 crore club in India. That milestone has been unlocked in real-time as you read this story.

Including taxes, the gross collections of Singham Again come to 230.80 crores.

Trending Golmaal 5 Box Office: A Super-Hit Streak + 3 Records Ajay Devgn & Rohit...

Banijay’s Endemol Shine Israel and Munich-based producer Neuesuper (“8 Days”) have inked German adaptation rights to Israeli hit comedy series “Nevsu,” to air on public broadcaster Zdf.

Israel’s “Nevsu” won the International Emmy Award for best comedy series in 2018. Its German adaptation, “I Don’t Work Here,” sees three generations from two worlds come together to form one family.

Revolving around Laura and Dawit, a young multi-racial couple, and their daughter, the pair are battling living with her parents and facing huge scrutiny from her mother-in-law.

The series will explore culture clashes, generational frustrations, and everyday racism with humor, endearing characters and family warmth.

The German adaptation is directed by Arman Riahi (“The Migrumpies”) and written by Romina Ecker (“Fat and Fat”) and Malina Nnendi Nwabuonwor.

“The Israeli audience was charmed by this comedy series as not only is it funny but ‘Nevsu’ also cleverly highlights the importance of building bridges,...

Ahead of the film’s world premiere at Locarno Film Festival, Variety has been given exclusive access to the debut trailer for “Hinterland,” the crime thriller from Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, who won the Foreign Language Film Oscar with “The Counterfeiters.”

The film is a center-piece of the festival with a prestigious first weekend primetime premiere on Friday, Aug. 6 in the event’s iconic open-air venue, Piazza Grande. Beta Cinema, the film’s sales agent, is looking to close further deals out of Locarno to follow up on Cannes Pre-Screenings deals soon to be announced.

“Hinterland,” starring Murathan Muslu (“Pelican Blood”) and Liv Lisa Fries (“Babylon Berlin”), is set in Vienna in 1920, following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Peter Perg (Muslu) returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity, but the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew.

The new Austrian...

David Hasselhoff is heading to Germany to star in a comedy spy series produced by Christian Alvart’s Berlin-based Syrreal Entertainment in what will be the first project from the company’s new international first-look deal with CBS Studios.

A straight-to-series order for Mediengruppe Rtl’s SVOD platform TVNow, “Ze Network” sees Hasselhoff playing himself as he travels to Germany to headline a stage production in what he believes is a major theater in East Berlin, only to discover it’s actually a small venue located “east of Berlin” — in the town of Görlitz. Once there, the Hoff is plunged into the center of an international conspiracy of former Cold War assassins, while around him the fabric of reality seems to break down.

German actor Henry Hübchen likewise plays himself, co-starring with Hasselhoff in the play. This version of Hübchen, however, has a more shadowy East German past than his...

A hallmark of Germany’s flourishing TV production industry, drama series “Echos” was unveiled at the Berlinale’s newly established Series Market Selects label this week.

A coming-of-age show of six one-hour episodes, “Echos” tells the story of Max, Nellie and Janosch, three privileged twenty-somethings from Munich. Always in search of new thrills, they head to an illegal rave party in the Munich catacombs. But things turn horribly wrong when a fire breaks out and some of the ravers go missing, including Nellie’s brother, Max. Nellie and Janosch gradually uncover an invisible web that spins together the story’s different characters, from a real estate tycoon to the investigating police inspector and the shadowy figures living in the bowels of the rich Bavarian city.

The latest offering of Munich-based outfit Neuesuper, “Echos” epitomizes the ambitions of a young generation of filmmakers keen to offer an alternative to Germany’s...

Year by year, the Berlin Film Festival’s drama series strand and market movers closer to center-stage. As in so many ways, Covid-19 may merely accelerate that process. The Zoo Palast Berlinale Series showcase no longer screen a time-consuming 20-minute taxi ride from the festival center, but online, its titles as accessible as festival movies.

For industry attendees movies — first arthouse and documentaries, later studio-style indie tentpoles — were the name of the game at Berlin. Now many producers who go to Berlin to talk movies are looking for a future with TV. After canvassing marketgoers, five takeaways about Berlin’s drama series lineup and Berlinale Series Market, which celebrates March 2 its Co-Pro Series pitching sessions, emerge:

The Biz So Far

In early industry news, Keshet Intl. has swooped in on sales rights to Norway’s “Suck It Up,” a drama produced by Monster Scripted for Viaplay and a reported standout...

German Films, the agency that promotes German cinema around the world, has unveiled the participants of the fifth edition of its Face to Face With German Films campaign, which this year is dedicated to screenwriters.

The writers chosen for Face to Face, which “turns the spotlight on the most influential names in the German audiovisual and film industry and represents some of its most dynamic figures,” are Jana Burbach (“Bad Banks”), Katharina Essyen (“Holiday Secrets”), Hanno Hackfort, Bernd Lange, Rafael Parente (“8 Days”) and Laila Stieler.

The campaign will kick off on March 26 with a panel discussion at Séries Mania in Lille, France, about modern storytelling, in partnership with Variety and Séries Mania. Entitled “Serious About Series: Elements of Innovation in Modern Storytelling,” the panel will be led by John Hopewell of Variety, in conversation with the six screenwriters.

Simone Baumann, managing director of German Films, said: “Now in its fifth year,...

Stefan Ruzowitzky, director of the Oscar-winning “The Counterfeiters,” and “The Grudge” screenwriter Stephen Susco have boarded “Alone,” a remake of the 2007 supernatural Thai thriller by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom.

The new film follows conjoined twin sisters from an Asian family in Boston whose loving relationship is tested when one of them befriends a boy, leading to her demand for a surgical separation from her sibling. During the operation, the forsaken sister dies. Years later, the deceased girl’s vengeful ghost returns to haunt her twin.

Former 20th Century Fox exec Paul Higginson and Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner of Berlin-based Carte Blanche Intl. are producing the film. Budgeted at between $5 million and $10 million, “Alone” is set for a targeted 2021 Stateside shoot on the East Coast as a U.S.-European co-production.

Van Dülmen said he was a big fan of the original film and also acquired distribution rights...

HBO and Sky drama Chernobyl was a double winner at the Rose D’Or awards. The event, which was held in London and presented by Lenny Henry, awarded The Golden Rose Award to the Sister Pictures-produced limited series, which also picked up the best drama award, ahead of Killing Eve, Succession, Years and Years, 8 Days and Escape at Dannemora. The Studio Entertainment award was won by BBC One’s Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, with the Comedy category going to Canadian series Baroness von Sketch Show and the Comedy Drama and Sitcom to Spanish series Arde Madrid. Orphans of a Nation, the Brazilian drama from Globo, won in the Soaps and Telenovelas category, while the Children and Youth award was presented to Norwegian series ZombieLars, which pairs slapstick gags with social commentary. The Reality and Factual Entertainment category was won by BBC2’s The Repair Shop, the Arts category...

In today’s film news roundup, Andre Caraco and Paul Noble receive promotions at Sony, Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war drama “Paths of Glory” gets restored, Drafthouse Films gets launched and “The Chainsaw Artist” wraps.

Exec Promotions

Sony Pictures has promoted veteran executives Andre Caraco and Paul Noble to the posts of co-presidents of global marketing.

Sony Pictures President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution Josh Greenstein made the announcement Tuesday.

“As you all know, taking a more global approach to our marketing efforts has been a top priority for some time now, and we wanted Andre and Paul’s titles to more accurately reflect the increasingly collaborative and global scope of their work and oversight,” he said in a staff memo. “Andre and Paul will now partner on all marketing efforts to ensure our campaigns are aligned with our global moviegoing audience.”

Curaco led the studio’s national publicity team from 2006 to 2016. Since then,...

In today’s roundup, Comedy Central announces the “Roast of Alec Baldwin” and “The Hot Zone” brings in huge ratings for National Geographic.

Specials

Comedy Central has revealed that Alec Baldwin will be this year’s roasting victim on “The Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin.” The roast will take place in New York, and the taping and airdate will be announced at a later date. Known for his Donald Trump impressions on “Saturday Night Live,” Baldwin joins Trump, Justin Bieber, Bruce Willis, James Franco and many other celebrities as roastees.

First Looks

Starz has released the official trailer for season two of “Sweetbitter,” which premieres on July 14 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. The drama’s new season follows Tess (Ella Purnell) as she navigates the challenges of her new waitressing job and her complicated love life.

Festivals

SeriesFest announced today that the upcoming NBC drama “Bluff City Law” will premiere at the festival,...

A Norwegian sleuth, a team of Chilean female investigators and the tribes of ancient Rome are headed to Cannes — by way of London.

Britain’s place in the world is the subject of debate and hand wringing in Blighty, with Brexit on the horizon. Amid the delays and confusion wrought by the U.K.’s exit from the European Union, its production and distribution powerhouses have embraced drama from the continent.

As production and distribution groups add non-English drama to their lineups or buy European shingles, the U.K., and specifically London, has become a hotspot for high-end scripted from around the world.

The U.K.-based boom in international fare stems from the consolidation that has seen the likes of Fremantle and ITV Studios assemble stables of production companies from across Europe. The growing appetite for foreign-language fare is another factor. On the distribution side, a factor is the...

Graced by Uma Thurman, “The Good Doctor” star Freddie Highmore and “Black Mirror” creators Charlie Brooker and Anabel Jones, the 10th edition of Series Mania will kick off March 22 with a prominent Netflix presence, a broader geographical reach and a strong showing of women writers and directors.

Thurman will make the trek to Lille, in northeast France, for the international premiere of Netflix Original Series “Chambers,” which looks like one of the hottest tickets in this year’s 10-title Official Competition. “Chambers” is a Ya supernatural drama thriller from Stephen Gaghan and Turner’s multi-platform Super Deluxe. In it a young heart attack victim begins to take on the sinister characteristics of her deceased heart donor. Thurman plays the donor’s mother.

Thurman, Highmore, and Brooker and Jones will deliver Series Mania masterclasses, as will writer-producer-director Marti Noxon, who is president of the Official Competition jury. Other members of the...

Germany is experiencing a golden era of television, with an increasing number of internationally acclaimed shows ranging from historical dramas and crime skeins to supernatural thrillers. And there’s plenty more on the horizon.

The arrival of Amazon and Netflix, both eager for original content, and the recent embrace by Sky Deutschland of similarly ambitious scripted fare, has provided a major boost to the local industry, mobilized top cinematic talent and recast television as a vehicle for a new kind of serialized storytelling that has captured the imaginations of local viewers and international audiences alike.

Producer Quirin Berg of Munich-based Wiedemann & Berg Television, producer of Sky Deutschland’s upcoming crime drama “Der Pass” (“Pagan Peak”), attributes Germany’s TV renaissance in large part to the proliferation of streaming outlets and changing viewing habits.

“We are living in a really wonderful era. Digitization, the streaming possibilities and their accessibility have generated...